who said before his death aged 100 in the 1860s that his family had occupied the farm for 800 years. Capel Celyn may be the most famous instance of a Welsh community dismantled for English gain ...

Seventy people were forced to leave their homes as Capel Celyn, with its school ... "People came to see the village before it was drowned and they used to say, 'Oh isn't it traumatic?

They were taken shortly before the Gwynedd community was ... A total of 70 people were forced to move from Capel Celyn in 1965 after nine years of angry protest. The protests at the killing ...

Capel Celyn Memorial Chapel was erected after the village of Capel Celyn in Gwynedd was drowned in 1965 to create a reservoir to supply the Wirral and Liverpool. The work was carried out by Dŵr ...

The abandoned Welsh village of Capel Celyn, Gwynedd has been dubbed 'Britain's Atlantis' after it was deliberately ... Liverpool City Council was brought before Parliament to develop a water ...

This video includes archive footage from the BBC's former Welsh language weekly news programme O Sul i Sul which shows Capel Celyn, including the school, in the early 1960s before they were flooded.

A new reservoir was needed, and Capel Celyn, its school ... They beat her by the side of the road. After that, we cut the microphone wires and they couldn't carry on with the speeches.

The village of Capel Celyn near Bala - made up of 16 farms ... small chapel which had been such a big part of the community before it was demolished. The scars left by the bulldozers can still ...

The only reminder comes in times of drought, when you glimpse the steeple of a church where the close knit community of Capel Celyn once met ... was sealed five days before Christmas in 1955 ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the closure of a school in north Wales before the valley it was ... a reservoir supplying water to England. Capel Celyn School near Bala was closed in 1965 ...

Seventy people were forced to leave their homes as Capel Celyn, with its school ... "People came to see the village before it was drowned and they used to say, 'Oh isn't it traumatic?